The Guardian: Weekend

Saturday 19 April 2008

Editors' picks

It was the young officials at Guantánamo who dreamed up a list of new aggressive interrogation techniques. But it was the politicians who set the ball rolling. Philippe Sands follows the torture trail right to the top

Features & comment p12

My neighbour has come to take me to school. Mother asks if I can go to their house afterwards because she is "going to the pictures". I don't remember what happened after school, except that my mother didn't come home

Features & comment p57

Alexis Petridis: What gives you sleepless nights? The looming recession? The schools lottery? Or perhaps you spend the early hours worrying about what kind of fertiliser was used to grow the cotton in your clothes

Features & comment p77

Oliver Burkeman: When you live, like me, in a city where a flat the size of a box of Weetabix costs £50m, it's comforting to mock people with more space. The problem is, we may be more similar to them than we think